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To: Condorman
That the domestication experiment worked at all is positive evidence that selection pressure causes measurable change in a population.

Actually, the experiment worked because of an intelligent intervention. There was no evidence of anything else. I need not prove what is already established.

87 posted on 12/17/2002 8:58:39 PM PST by FormerLib
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To: FormerLib
the experiment worked because of an intelligent intervention. There was no evidence of anything else.

Yes, humans deliberately applied selection pressures to the fox population. This is called "methodology." The results of the experiment demonstrate that constant selection pressure can and does change the characteristics of a population after a series of generations. This is called "evidence."

The question you have left unanswered is how are selection pressures imposed by an intelligent agent different from undirected selection pressures?

102 posted on 12/18/2002 11:08:24 AM PST by Condorman
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